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than a million books for free. Excerpt: Quadrivium itself,
naturally led to the substitution of examinations, -- in which the
relative merit of mathematical students was more accurately tested,
-- for the school disputations, in which the logic of the Trivium
played a prominent part; and the influence of Newton, Cotes, and
Smith, not unassisted by the more general scholars, Barrow and
Bentley, paved the way for the establishment of the mathematical
tripos in the middle of the 18th century. The literary tendencies
of Trinity College, and the great scholars produced by that
institution, began about the same time to assert the claims of
classical learning to similar encouragement in the examinations.
First, Chancellor's Medals were instituted for the two best
classical scholars in the first mathematical tripos list. Then,
Bishop Monk, the immediate successor of Porson, after improving the
classical examinations of Trinity College and of the University at
large, contrived, with great difficulty, to effect in 1824 the
establishment of a classical tripos open to all Bachelors whose
names had appeared in the mathematical tripos. And, at last, the
students of classical literature are about to be allowed to compete
for places in a tripos of their own, without the previous necessity
of appearing as class-men in mathematics. By these examinations a
broad foundation has been laid for the re-establishment of the
school of arts at Cambridge; and the Trivium and the Quadrivium,
appearing in a modern dress as learning and science, literature and
philosophy, grammar and geometry, philology and physiology, may now
be regarded as receiving, or about to receiv...
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